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697gW TIL the largest war in history wasn’t between humans but between billions of ants carried out on multiple continents
x79g TIL that when the mathematician George Dantzig was studying in Berkeley, he solved two open problems in statistical theory which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture
epZVb TIL American environmentalist John Francis made the decision to refrain from speaking for a day in order to improve his ability to hear his detractors. He made it into a silent commitment for 17 years. He attended school for those 17 years, even receiving a PhD.
oVdA TIL that a popular 17th century Chinese concoction of pickled fish & spices called “kê-chiap” was picked up by the English explorers. The English settlers took it with them to the American colonies. This concoction became quite popular and we know it today as Ketchup.
YpWwB TIL actor Paul Giamatti’s father Angelo Giamatti was a Yale University professor and then Yale University president. He was also the 7th (and shortest-tenured) commissioner of the MLB, dying of a heart attack at 51